Introduce this Weekend League Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Matches

How can you enhance a stellar veteran side that have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have performed at the top level of club and global soccer as you pursue additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their current roster.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign features nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite matches.

The high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this season also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"That movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a